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The word "koala" is derived from gula in the Dharuk and Gundungurra languages A Yuin man, c.1904The Dharug language, also spelt Darug, Dharuk, and other variants, and also known as the Sydney language, Gadigal language (Sydney city area), is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yuin–Kuric group that was traditionally spoken in the region of Sydney, New South Wales, until it became ...
The Dharug language, has two dialects; one inland and one coastal. [2] [3] The word myall, now a pejorative word in Australian English denoting any Aboriginal person who keeps a traditional way of life, originated in the Dharug language. In Dharug, the word mayal means anyone from another clan or country. [4] [5]
The labels of all three subgroups reflect the word for 'man' or 'Aboriginal person' in their respective included languages. The koala is named from the word gula for the animal in the Dharug language, [4] a Yuin–Kuri language within the Yora group, and the same word occurs in other Yuin–Kuri languages, such as Gundungurra, [5] within the ...
There was a strong Aboriginal resistance to colonisation. [29] There was a period of sustained warfare throughout coastal Sydney, involving the Bidjigal clan at the Sydney basin, from 1788 to 1817. [30] The Aboriginal people utilised guerrilla-style warfare, as a way of combating the vast gap in weaponry capabilities to the colonists. [30]
Wianamatta is an Aboriginal word of the Dharug language, meaning 'mother place'. [1] Evidence of early Aboriginal people has been found in several locations within the Blacktown Local government area. Shell middens from the Darug people have been found near the sewage treatment plant on Breakfast Creek and South Creek. [3]
The Gandangara joined forces with the Thurrawal/Darawal, who had linked up with remnants of the Dharug, in order to participate in the frontier war, also raiding cornfields. The decline in Dharug population had opened up parts of their territory to use by neighbouring tribal groups, which also fought among themselves.
Satellite view of Australia's capital city, Canberra, whose name comes from a Ngunawal language word meaning "meeting place". Welcome sign from Murwillumbah, New South Wales. The name derives from the Bandjalang word meaning "camping place". Aboriginal names of suburbs of Brisbane, derived from the Turrbal language.
The Aboriginal language known variously as Dharug, Eora or simply 'the Sydney Language' was spoken around Woronora at the time of colonisation (Troy 1994:61 [8]). Lists of Dharug words gathered around the turn of the century provide a number of possibilities regarding the number of morphemes and likely constituents of the placename.